Holder for line justifying sheets



Feb. 13, 1940. H. LANDSIEDEL 2,190,183

4 HOLDER FOR LINE JUSTIFYING SHEETS Original Filed March 17, 1936 UUSSIG 99 Home A FAST AND ECONOMIC/M. METHOD OF JUSTIFYI@ o o Patented Fel. i3, 1940 UNITED STATES.

y :naam n nomen son anni .marmo snsa'rs Barry Medel. vWilton, mn..

Remington Rand Inc..

to Malo, N. Y. Y

Divided` nml this Ilary 25, 1938, el'llfNo. 186,852

nu Ian- This invention relates to a holder for character or type aligning paper so that the printedlines of characters on the sheet may be justified while the sheet is carried by the holder to provide unir, form margins at both sides of the sheet.

This application is a division of application Serial No. 69,310, filed March 17, 1936, now Patent No. 2,126,480.

The present invention comprehends the provision of a holder for type aligning paper provided with means for holding the left-hand margin of a printed sheet in adjusted position so the righthand side of the sheet can have strip portions each carrying a line of characters separated from the sheet and stretched slightly to engage the righthand end of the strip over a pin on the holder. Since the strips for each line of typing on the character aligning paper will be stretched varying amounts according to the place where the line of printing ended, this variable stretching will place the end character at the right-hand end of each line in vertically aligned relation.

The invention is adapted to support and hold sheets of different sizes for justification in order that a desired width of justified printing may be obtained in the use of the holder, and for this purpose the left-hand margin clamp is adjustably mounted on the holder plate.

The holder is constructed to receive sheets having punched openings along the left-hand margin so the clamp will receive the sheet in a fixed position with the openings in the sheet engaged over pins carried by the clamp while the clamp has a flange for offsetting the sheet slightly along the edge thereof so it will rest on the face ot the holder plate for the justifying operation.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of fragments of a sheet land holder showing a portion of a sheet having unjustified lines of typing and another portion having the strip portions stretched to justify the lines of typing, so as to illustrate the manner in which the holder is constructed and used in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a cross section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 shows a sheet constructed similar to Fig. 1 with the addition of non-stretchable sections at the ends of the strips illustrating how the sheet is perforated so that the perforations may be used in retaining the strip on a suitable holding frame during the justifying operation.

Fig. 5 shows a fragment of the sheet shown in Fig. 4 applied to a fragment of a supporting frame provided with dowel pins with the sheet having certain of its openings engaged over the dowel pins on the frame and with the strips having typing thereon stretched to justify said lines of typing. o

Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic cross section taken on line I-B oi F18. 4.

Fig. 7 is a cross section illustrating diagrammatically how the laminated crinkled paper'uaed` as part of the present invention may be conl0 structed.

A material for use in making the character or line justifying sheet of the present invention preferably consists of two sheets of what is ordinarily known as crinkled paper.` It is preferred to have 1I the crinkled or corrugated paper sheet constructed with the corrugations running in one direction. Two of these sheets are superimposed upon one another and adhesively secured together by a l latex compound to form a flexible, stretchable sheet in which the corrugations of both corrugated sheets run in the same direction. This makes the sheet stretchable in the direction opposite to the direction of the corrugations. Sheet material of this character is well known in the u art and the illustration in the drawing is for the purpose of showing only sumcient of the structure A of the sheet so that present invention may be understood.

The laminated sheet constructed as above de- 30 scribed is illustrated particularly in the transverse or lateral cross section of ng. '1 which shows the structure of the laminated sheet diagrammatically on an enlarged scale, the corrugated or crinkled paper sheets being indicated at I, while 2 indicates 88 the adhesive latex composition uniting the sheets together to form a composite laminated sheet. The sheet is illustrated in plan view in Fig. 1` and lt will be understood that the corrugations extend from the top to the bottom of the sheet so as to 40 provide lateral stretchability. j

The sheet is provided with spaced rows of perforations 3 beginning in spaced relation inwardly from the left-hand margin as illustrated in Fig. 1 to leave an integral marginal portion I. The rows of perforations 3 extend through the opposite side edge of the sheet. These'perforations are in the form of elongated slits that extend through both of the corrugated or crinkled paper layers I and the latex layer 2 so as to completely 50 sever the sheet into individual strips 5 arranged in adjacent relation in sheet form and held together by the relatively small unperforated and frangible portions B of the sheet which are left intact between the ends of the slits or perforations may be typed on' the strips, in which one line is placed in the central portion of each'strip as illustrated in the drawing, each of the lines having the'margin at the left-hand side of the sheet arranged inthe usual .uniform manner, while the margin at the right-hand side will be non-uniform which is customary with the use of typewriting machines.

In typing von the sheet in the usual way or as shown at the upper portion of Fig. i1,V the lettervr f'A indicated at 1 is indented to begin a para` graph while the rst letters in the succeeding lines indicated at 3 will be arranged .in vertical alignment. 'I'he sheet is preferably printed with faint vertical lines to aid an operator in" typing on the sheet so as to produce ultimate justified.

typing of a desired width between the side margins. For this Purpose, line 9 forms the left-hand andl I5 form right-hand 'margin-'guide lines so the width of Ithevtyped mattermay be confined within a space of 3, 4, 5, 6. 7 or 8 inches,` asvmay be desired; These printed margin guidel lines have a color that will not photograph on the usual photographic illrn or thatv may be eliminated by a color screen.' l

In ltyping a sheet as above described in accordance with the illustration in Fig. 1, the typewriter used for this purpose will be equipped with a special type bar having a projection similar to that for forming a period, but which is longer than the projection usually used to make a period. This type bar' will'be so'arranged that when the end of the typed line is reached, va special space key may be operated t'o allowthe carriage to move over three spaces, or more or less, as may be desired. The special type bar is then oper'- ated byits key with suitable mechanism for moving the ribbon out of the way during its operation so the projection on this-special typeD bar willpierce the central portion of lthe strip beyond the end of the typed portion to form a pin hole in the sheet indicated by the numeral |6 in Fig. 1. This pin hole is used in 'justifying-the lines of typing in a'manner that will be hereinafter Y described.

If a special spacing mechanism is not available on the typewriter used for the purpose of typing the sheets of this invention, then thel operator may use the usual space bar mechanism anda't the end of each line of typing provide the requisite number of 'spaces between the last characterin the line of typing before operating the pin hole forming key bar. It will thus be seen that the pin hole formed in each strip of -each line will 'be offset to the same extent as the last character in each line of typing on the sheet, as clearly illustrated in the upper portion of Fig. 1,.show ing the line of typing on the rst or top strip of the sheet and the end characters on several strips below the top one. y After the sheet is completely typed with the desired matter it is then desirable in justifying the lines of typing to mountk the sheet on a supporting plate or iiange I1. 'I'he supporting plate I1 is formed of a. flat sheet metal plate of desired size provided with a row of pins |8 on the righthand margin of the plate spaced apart a distance equal to the width of strips 5 so that the central portion of each strip 5 will be aligned with one of the pins i5.l These pins are inclined toward the adjacent or right-hand margin of the plate as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

A row of screw-threaded posts I9 is provided along the upper and lower marginal portions of plate 1. 'Ihe posts in each row are spaced apart a distance of one inch from center to center to 'corresponding with the spacing of margin guide .lines III, II, |2, |3, M and I5. If it is desirable to space these margin guide lines at some diierentdistance apart then the posts will be correspondingly spaced. The. right-hand post I9 at 'the top and bottom of plate |1 as shown in Fig.' 1

will be positioned in vertical alignment and within a.vertical plane parallel to the plane of pins |8 and` spaced to the left thereof as shown in i Fig'll a, distance suilicient to place margin guide I slightly to the` left of pins I9. Fig. 1 shows the u se of margin guide line I with the printing, linev I5 being shown to the left of pins I8 in the proper position. As described above, the space for eachroi.' the right-hand margin guide lines on the sheet has been arbitrarily selected and posts |9 arepositioned `correspondingly so that for the desired width of printing' on the sheet, the sheet will lbe positionedy on the plate with the selected margin 'guide line' at the right in the position of guide line l5 on the plate as shown in Fig. l. Fig. l is on a scale less than actual size. e

It will thus be seen that the other posts I9are 'spaced different distances from the plane of pins I8 to correspond with the spacing of the margin guide lines on the corrugated justifying sheet so that the sheet may be placed in diierent positions on plate I1, as desired. ,The center of plate I1 is'x'ormed with aseries of apertures 20 that are arranged in spaced relation across the plate corresponding tothe spacing of posts I9 with each aperture in the vertical planeV intersecting one pair of corresponding posts at the upper and lower margins of plate I1.

A sheet holder has a removable post bar 2| formed of a sheet metal strip provided with a plurality of sheet engaging posts 22. Post bar 2| is provided with openings in the opposite end portions to receive posts I9 as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. A sheet clamping bar 23 forms part of the sheet holder and is formed with a laterally extending flange 24 on one edge and a series of openings to receive posts 22 so they may project through bar 23 as illustrated in Fig. 2./ Opposite ends' of clamping bar 23 are formed with openings to receive posts I9. The central portion of gripper bar 23 is provided with an opening to receive a threaded post 25 mounted in the central portion of post bar 2|. A projection 26 extends from the opposite side of the post bar aligned with post 25 as shown in Fig. 2 so that it will freely engage in any one of the openings 2li in plate I1.

Thumb screws 21 are threaded on posts I9 and post 25 having post bar 2| and clamping bar 23 arranged thereon in superimposed relation as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, with a typed sheet for justifying clamped therebetween along the lefthand margin 4. 'Ihe margin 4 of the sheet provided with the unjustied typing on the strip 5 has a series of holes spaced apart the proper distance tol receive posts 22 and post 25l to position the sheet between post bars 2| and clamping bar 23 as shown in Figs. l to 3.

With the post bar and the clamping bar retaining the typed sheet therebetween. and the ends engaged over posts I8 at the top and bottom of plate I1, the thumb screws 21 are threaded 'lil `face of plate I'I. `shown in Figs. l to3 `and projection 2i is en medias on posts II and posts 25 to lock clamping bar 22 tightly against postbar 2| with the bottom face of postbarZl clamped tightly against the upper This position of the parts is gaged in one of the openings 2l.

In the illustration of the invention in the Figs. l to 3 the line justifying sheet is shown as being provided with typing adapted to have lthe space between the margins equalling a distance of approximately 8 inches between margins when justified, so that the post bar and clamping barare placed on the pair of posts I9 nearest to the lefthand edge of plate l1. This positions the righthand margin of the -line justifying sheet so that line I5 is spaced inwardly a slight distancefrom the plane of pins Il.v With the parts in the position as shown in Fig. 1 the sheet is ready to have the lines of typing justified.

For this purpose it is preferred to start with the strip 5 at the top of the sheet. By raising the strip upwardly, and at the same time holding the remaining strips against plate l1, the uppermost strip 5 can be gripped between the fingers of the right-hand. for example, at the right-hand end as shown in Fig. 1 and in being lifted upwardly the connections 6 between the uppermost strip and the next strip will be broken apart to separate the uppermost strip 5 from the remainder of the sheet except where it is connected to margin I. As soon ask this is done the strip is stretched until pin hole i6 is engaged with the pointed end of pin I8 in alignment therewith. The strip is then forced onto the pin so that pin I8 will project through the pin hole I6.` The separated strip 5 when stretched a distance equal to that between the pin hole I6 as shown in Fig. 1 and the pin I8 to the right thereof, will justify the first line of typing. This stretches the entire strip throughout its length and elongates the line of typing on the strip so that the last character in the line will be positioned in alignment with the margin line i5 of the other strips. This justification of the strip is illustrated in the lower portion of Fig. 1 showing four strips at the bottom of the sheet that have been justified by stretching the strips to engage the pin holes over pins I 8 thereby producing a uniform right-hand margin for the printed matter on the several strips.

From the illustration in Fig. l of thc unjustified strip and the ones that have been justified it can be readily seen how each strip upon being separated from the adjacent strip or strips may be stretched to justify the line of typing so that each strip will be stretched a greater or less amount than the adjacent strip to position the pin hole i6 over the corresponding pin I8.

As soon as all of the typed strips on the sheet mounted on plate il have been justified in this manner` plate l1 may be placed in a suitable camera for photographing to obtain the desired photographic reproduction of the justified printing or typing. In some cases the justified printing may be photographed directly onto a printing plate that may be treated to subsequently produce printed copies of the justified mattei' photographed .from the sheet on plate I1. Methods and means for utilizing the justified printing produced by this invention to produce printed copies with uniform margins are well known in the art.

' The plate ll may be of any suitable dimension so as to provide for the use of' justifying sheets for typing or printing of any character and any size. Where plate l1 is of substantial length a series `of openings 2li in the central portion for receiving projection 26 on post bar 2i will facilitate the mounting of the sheet holder in position on plate I'I with the bar clamped only at oppositeends to plate Il and yet prevent lateral flexing of the sheet holder that might otherwise be caused from lthe tension placed thereon by the justifying of strips 5 when secured to pins Il. I exceptionally long plates more than one series f holes 2l and projections 26 may be used if desired. Flange 24 as shown in Fig. 3 crimps the sheet around the edge of post bar 2l and in this way provides a more effective-clamping of i the margin I of the sheet between the post'bar and the clamping bar and in addition, positions the left-hand portion of the sheet so that the le'ft-hand 'ends of strips 5 will lie hat upon plate In Figs. 4. 5. and 6 the line justifying sheet illustrated therein is constructed in the same manner as the one shown in Figs. 1 to 3 and Fig. 7, but arranged so that instead of using a pin hole I6 in the strip for engaging over pins Il on `plate I1, the strips may be pre-punched to eliminate the necessity of having a special key and type' bar on the typewriter for punching the pin holes. The line justifying sheet is designated 28, Figs. 4 `to 6. and is modified from the construction of the sheet shown in Fig. l by the provision of non-stretchable reinforcing strips 29 applied on the under faces of the right-hand end of each of the strips in the sheet. This portion oi the sheet is provided with a series of punched apertures 30 spaced apart along-each strip a distance equal to the spacing of characters printed on the strip. Since standard spacing is used on most typewriters it will be obvious that these openings 30 may be spaced for typewriters of standard spacing and when used on these typewriters the provision of five holes as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 will allowthe stretching of the strips in the sheet an amount sufficient to compensate for flve character spaces. This has been found by investigation and experiment to be a suilicient amount of justification to take care of all types of printing or typewriting to secure a justified right-hand margin of the printed matter. The section in Fig. 6 through the ends of the strip showing reinforcing strips 29 applied on the sheet also illustrates the slitted formation of the sheets as described in Fig. 1 through the provision of a series of aligned slits 6. the slits in the illustration in Fig. 6 corresponding to slits 6 in Fig. 1 being illustrated on an enlarged scale and indicated by the numeral 3|.

When a sheet 28 is provided with lines of typing as shown in Fig. 4, it may then be applied to a plate 32 constructed in the same manner as the plate I1 with one exception, that is, instead of pins I8 along the right-hand margin of the plate it will be provided with dowel pins 33, that are not pointedf but have rounded ends of a size to project through openings 30. Pins 33 may have the free ends inclined similar to pins I 8 or' they may be straight if desired. Fig. 5 illustrates the pins as being straight and extending laterally from supporting plate 32. The sheet holder having the post and clamping bar structure for holding the left-hand margin of sheet 28 is constructed in exactly the same manner as disclosed in Fig. 1 and it is therefore not necessary to specifically describe this structure.

When sheet 28 is mounted on supporting plate 3 2 in the manner of the sheet shown in li'ig. 1 and as illustrated in Fig. 5. for justifyingv the lines of typing, it is only necessary to separate each strip from its adjacent strip or stripsand stretch it to engage the desired hole over dowel pin Il. In this manner the lines of typing will have the right-hand margin justied in the same manner as the sheet illustrated and described in Fig. l and in view of the foregoing description it will be clearly understood how sheet 2s is justified, particularlyin viewof the illustration of the sheet in Figs. 4 and 5. vIn Fig. 5 the strips have been justinedand are held inthe justified position on supporting plate 32 ready forthe photographing operation.

The line justifying sheet afterbeing photographed may be readily.l removed from plate l1 and stored in a suitable le or disposedin any other manner desired. It. will be understood that by using a laminated structure of corrugated sheet, as shown in Fig. 7, and described herein, no further sheet structure is necessary in the provision of asheet for receiving lines of typing to be justified. The necessity for backing sheets or other associated sheets to the corrugated sheet is eliminated, not only through vthe use of laminated corrugated paper or similar material, but

by reason of the structure of the sheet in the provision of .the plurality of strips by providing the strips with connections at spaced intervals through the slitting operation of the sheet in the provision of the strips that receive the lines of typing. f.

By the use of a vlaminated sheet formed of a 'series-of corrugated sheets -ithas been found that a better type of sheet for receiving typing to be justified is provided than through the use of single sheets because the sheet `can be more readily handled and provides greater tractabllity and uniformity in the sheet for the justifying of the typing by stretching the strips.

While the holder for line justifying sheets is particularly described in connection with a particular construction of line justifying sheet as disclosed in the above mentioned eo-pending application, itfisl to be understood that this holder may be used with any other typeof-.sheet that is available foruse in` justifying lines of typing where the sheet is arranged in strips. each containing alline of typing, and the-separate strips are adapted for stretching various the: justifying operation.` g

`Theinvention. claimed is: 1 l'. Ahold'r for line justifying sheets, comprisinga plate, spaced aligned postson the upper and lower lmargins of said plate. a post bar `deamounts in tachably engagedatjopposite ends on selected posts, a. clamping bar-,superimposed on said post bar .and cooperable therewith to retain one margin oi' a sheet therebetween, means clamping said bars together and to said plate, and. strip opposite margin of said sheet.

2`. A holder for line justifying sheets, :comprising a plate, spaced posts on upper and lower margins of said plate, a pair of sheet holding bars engageable on a pair of said posts at opposite ends for ad-.iustable positioning on said plate on .ingl'iars having opposite ends engaged on said posts,'one of said barsv seating on the face of said platte and thenother bar having a lateral flange extending over the edge of the first-mentioned bar and cooperating to hold a sheetclamped between said bars on the surface of said v.holders on a marginyof said plate to hold the Y plate, and means detachably retaining'said bars 'C in clamping cooperation and secured tolsaid 

